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Outstanding trip to Tasiilaq, in east Greenland. On a walk through town the other day, these polar bear skins:

Nothing is wasted around here and all hunting is strictly sustainable.

Consider the seal: As food, seal meat is protein rich for tough Arctic winters, and you’ll find it served dried, stir fried, roasted, as steaks or in suaasat, a seal soup with rice and onions. Beyond food for the family, seal parts feed the sled dogs, who are every bit as essential to an Inuit family as your car. Before electricity, seal blubber lit the Inuit night, loaded into a carved soapstone, using cotton grass, moss or even dried rabbit dung as a wick. On winter hunting trips seal blubber is still used this way. The skin makes insulating clothes. Bones are carved into tools and tourist trinkets here, at Workshop Stunk:

Good day here today, they say the best weather day of the year where, at this hour, just shy of midnight, the kids are playing football still. Clouds rolled back at midday and the sun on the hills is tremendous. But … those photos are still to come. Tomorrow is a travel day, on to Iceland and then Finland, so those will have to wait. Here we have three from yesterday:

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My wife and I live on a horse farm in Young Harris, Georgia, and spend parts of every summer in our tiny cabin on Lake Saimaa in Finland. Because my day job has outfitted me with audio equipment, I am available for studio quality broadcast author interviews via SourceConnect.

As to the increased political chatter here lately, I just can't help it.